[78-L] ^Grog back [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

Somehow I find it hard to take seriously all the schwetzing about preserving a heritage....  I think the Sony execs were having the reporter on.

Mike in Plovdiv
--- On Thu, 10/1/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] ^Grog back
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 3:30 PM
> Seth Winner had told me about this
> turntable years ago.  I guess 
> Columbia had been embarrassed to be using a ratty old Gates
> turntable 
> for their re-issues (all the stuff from the 60s was done on
> that with a 
> VR-II) and somebody probably found some left-over budget
> money and used 
> it for this instead of funding 20 or 30 reissue albums with
> the money.  
> Cave man mentality.  And this reminds me, I wonder
> what is happening 
> with the project of streaming 10,000 acoustical recordings
> from the Sony 
> archive by LC from the Culpepper Cave?
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> > Ugh. 
> > Grog like rock table.
> > Good for play Grog big hit "Aaaargh! Blecch!" on
> Marbletone 1111.
> > Article shaky though.
> > M
> >
> > *******
> >
> > Jimmy: I love this: “the World’s Most Expensive
> Turntable” — an 800- 
> > pound, $65,000, granite-based, pneumatic Rockport
> Technologies  
> > special. Mr. Kirkeby said that only four like this
> were ever made.
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/nyregion/01rooms.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y
> >
> >
> >
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